Sunk deep into depravity,
Walking around in the streets,
My feet like my heart as it beats.
Falling ever more quickly,
We sink as a society,
We dreamed and we broke,
And the city with its smoke,
Threatened our lungs to collapse,
And we breathe and relapse,
Our once beautiful nation,
Our crushed beaten civilization.
Oh how we've broken her,
And ruined her future,
We've failed all our mothers,
Not to mention the others,
Ruined race of men,
We cursed our own children.
We dreamed and believed,
Broke our backs as we heaved,
Worked with our sweat and blood,
Our tears like a flood,
Only to wake up and see,
This bent version of humanity,
We the people so ruined and flawed,
Are we still one nation under God?
This is very good, Annie. I like that it engages with the brokenness of a fallen world, and brings in more eternal questions at the end.
ReplyDeleteAnd you also did non-annoying couplets.